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Woodinville High School is a public secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 located in Woodinville, Washington
Woodinville, Washington
Woodinville is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,938 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Seattle metropolitan area. There is also a much larger population with Woodinville mailing addresses in adjacent unincorporated areas of King and Snohomish counties...

 and is part of the Northshore School District
Northshore School District
Northshore School District is a public school district covering portions of both King County and Snohomish County, Washington. The district's service area covers the cities of Bothell , Woodinville,and Kenmore as well as portions of unincorporated King County....

.

Basic information

Woodinville High School was built in 1983 on a 50 acres (202,343 m²) site. A special education and administration addition in 1990 expanded the facility. The athletics fields recently underwent a full modernization with new lighted baseball, tennis and softball fields. During the summer of 1997 the chemistry and physics labs were remodeled. In the early 2000s, the soccer field and track field events area was renovated. Currently, the school is undergoing a significant remodel in which all but the Gym and the Administration building are being razed and rebuilt. 60 classrooms are in use daily for students. In the 2009-2010 school year the students of Woodinville High School gained a brand new cafeteria. In addition, the school theater, gym and fields are being used in the evenings and on the weekends for special events by the community. Leota Junior High and Timbercrest Junior High, as well as other outside schools feed into Woodinville High School. Woodinville is a part of the Kingco 4A athletic conference.

WHS (as the school is known by its students and staff) is one of the three mainstream high schools in Northshore School District. The school offers a wide-range of celebrated curricular and extracurricular-based programs including the dramatic
Dramatic
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 and fine arts, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

, athletics
Athletic sports
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 and Science
Science
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. Every year, Woodinville High supports many athletic teams, including football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 (men's/women's), soccer (men's/women's), track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 (men's/women's) and women's Gymnastics
Gymnastics
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 team which, as of 2010, has won 4 state titles in a row. The graduating girls of 2010 never lost a single match.

Drama program

From the school's opening in 1983 to 2006, the Drama Department was headed by Director Hjalmer Anderson. During his tenure at WHS, the acclaimed director built the program to be one of the top drama programs in the United States, and they were invited twice to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe
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 as part of the American High School Theatre Festival. In 2006, Mr. Anderson retired and his position was filled by Mrs. Leslie Herlich.

Music program

The WHS music courses include Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band (those two groups combine to create the marching/pep band), orchestra, jazz band, guitar, choir (led by Ms. Kyra Settle), and piano lab. Most classes are conducted by Mr. Eric Lucas. Whenever the marching/pep band perform, they are led by student Senior and Junior drum majors. Students are elected to this position by their peers. The marching band performs at all home and playoff football and basketball games. They also march in the Macy's parade the day after Thanksgiving, and in Woodinville's All Fool's Day parade in the spring. There are also some concerts throughout the year. The largest concert is "An Evening at the Pops," held annually in May.

Academics

The current Principal is Vicki Puckett. Woodinville High School has a wide range of educational opportunities including AP Classes, NEVAC classes, WANIC classes, and school newspaper (Quill). Many art classes are offered, such as metal design (jewelry) and ceramics, as well as computer classes, such as CAD and computer animation. The school recently obtained a perfect 10 GreatSchools rating.http://www.greatschools.net/school/rating.page?id=1238&state=WA
The AP classes offered are English, Economics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics B, Physics C, Spanish, French, German, US Government and Politics, US History, World History, European History, Art History, Calculus AB, and Statistics.

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